After you start up the computer, there will be some icons in the system tray toward the right of the panel (right next to the clock), one of them will be for the network manager. Click on it and you'll see a list of available wireless connections, if the connection you choose is a secure network then you'll be prompted for a password.

It'll show up in the menu under "Internet". The setup instructions are extremely simple, just create an account on one computer and link to it with the other. Anything you put in your ~/Dropbox folder will then be accessible from both systems.

Dear Kendall,
Dropbox (as Ubuntu One) gives me the opportunity to share through the internet and max 2Gb (free option).
I would like to share the all file system of any computer and not through the web, but only using the router to connect.
Both computers run with Linux Mint Fluxbox 8.
Parhaps Network File System + Thunar? I don't know.

Then with "thunar" I changed the properties of the folders I want to share.

But that was still not enough. I had to provide fixed IPs for all computers in the LAN and add them to the file "/etc/hosts".
After all this it works perfectly, i.e. I just have to go to the "Network" folder and from there I see the "WORKGROUP" and all computers and shared folders...

As I mentioned, in your router you need to assign fixed IPs to each computer. The computers have a unique identification MAC (it's not exactly the computers identification, but of the device that is used for connecting, i.e. WLAN adapter or a network card) and these can be assigned a fixed IP. Once that is done in the router, then the "hosts" files could look like this:

clem wrote:- Click the "Shared Folders" in System->Preferences (or is it System->Administration... ? I can't check right now..). Then follow the steps and add you home folder for instance. This might trigger the installation of a few packages.

- if you haven't done so yet install mintDesktop 1.2

- reboot

- go to your Home-->Network folder. You should see all the workgroups on your network in there... including the one for your local computer.